President Donald Trump has ordered the Commerce Department, which oversees the U.S. Census Bureau, to prepare a new census. That comes after years of evidence that the last one contained significant errors that almost exclusively benefited blue states.
As RedState reported, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) recently pushed for this in a speech in late July, and it wasn’t just an idle concern. Florida is one of the states that got messed over the most during the last census, with its population being undercounted. In fact, five of the six states that were undercounted in 2020 were red states, and the one blue state was one of the lowest undercounts (Illinois).
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Florida was undercounted by a whopping 3.48 percent, while Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas were all above four percent. That’s not the only consideration, though. You also have to consider blue states being overcounted, and surprise, six of the eight states that were most overcounted were blue states, including New York and Massachusetts.
Both Florida and Texas should have gained an extra seat, while Minnesota and Rhode Island should have lost seats. Tennessee likely would have garnered a new seat as well.
With the Trump administration now trying to right those wrongs, the responses from the left have been predictable.
I mean, if those blue states aren’t supposed to have those seats and electoral votes, then why wouldn’t we want a new census? Do we want things to be accurate or not? That’s a rhetorical question because we all know Democrats do not want things to be accurate. They want only what gives them the most raw power.
How is it fair, though, for blue states to retain seats they shouldn’t have? And no doubt, if we did a census only counting citizens, as DeSantis and now Trump are calling for, Democrat-led states would lose even more seats than previously projected. How much of California’s congressional delegation is propped up by the state’s large illegal immigrant population?
With that said, there would be legal challenges to such a census, but so what? There are legal challenges to everything the Trump administration does. I believe it’s fairly obvious that the intent of the Constitution was not to count illegal aliens, as that makes no sense regarding the electoral college system, which is reliant on the census for allocation. Why would you count people who can’t vote to allocate electoral votes? We all know the answer.
